Star editor Anne Marie Owens' sons now in the their 20s-got their love of camping at an early age.
The fact that my parents immigrated to Canada in the shadow of Expo 67 may explain some of their enthusiasm for all things they equated with being Canadian.
In the years after moving from England, my brothers and I were thrown into every activity my parents thought would help make us Canadian: skating and swimming lessons, cross-country skiing, canoeing and camping.
We'd done none of it in England, nor had my parents, who embraced it all with the zeal of newcomers, dragging us along with them.
We borrowed a tent one of those first summers and then bought our own heavy canvas behemoth the summer after. Some summers, my father, a plumber, exchanged his skills for free family stays at cottag es and lakeside resorts; as he worked all day on back-breaking jobs, we enjoyed Ontario's lakes and woodlands.
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